you know what, I agree with Sam here. I'm not the most religious person and I don't practice at ALL but I'm a bit incredulous about the rants I have seen here. Yes, religion has been the excuse for a lot of evil deeds. We get it. But there is nothing inherent in religion which leads to evil; on the contrary. The fact that people pervert calls for loving their brother into reasons to kill him has more to do with human nature imho than religion itself.
On 12/6/07, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've never seen anyone proselytize for a religion on this list yet at > least once a month religion is attacked here. One would actually think > all religious people are lunatic fundamentalists and it's up to the > atheist here to save the world, based on reading this list at least. > > > On Dec 6, 2007 8:48 PM, Sean Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 6, 2007 7:24 PM, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think you should read Quantum Evolution. > > > > I think you should read this: > > > > http://atheism.about.com/od/definitionofatheism/Definition_of_Atheism_Dictionaries_Atheists_Others_Define_Atheism.htm > > > > < http://atheism.about.com/od/definitionofatheism/Definition_of_Atheism_Dictionaries_Atheists_Others_Define_Atheism.htm > > > > > In particular: > > > > "Because of atheism's long-standing association with freethought, > > anti-clericalism, and dissent from religion, many people seem to > > assume that atheism is the same as anti-religion. This, in turn, seems > > to lead people to assume that atheism is itself a religion - or at > > least some sort of anti-religious ideology, philosophy, etc. This is > > incorrect. Atheism is the absence of theism; by itself, it isn't even > > a belief, much less a belief system, and as such cannot be any of > > those things." > > -- > > Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN > > An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ > > > > "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." > > -- Margaret Atwood > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:247832 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
